Acquires and takes round the tea bags (9)

I believe the answer is:

purchases

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'acquires' is the definition.
(purchasing is a kind of acquiring)

'round the tea bags' is the wordplay.
'round' indicates putting letters inside.
'the tea' becomes 'cha' (cha is a type of tea).
'bags' becomes 'purses' ('purse' can be a synonym of 'bag').
'cha' placed into 'purses' is 'PURCHASES'.

'and takes' acts as a link.
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(Another definition for purchases that I've seen is " commodities".)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.

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